The Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) Regulations 2014

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1. Introductory Text

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   PART 1 INTRODUCTION

   1. 1. Citation, commencement, application and extent

   2. 2. Interpretation

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   PART 2 CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT

   1. 3. Competent authority

   2. 4. Agency arrangements

   3. 5. Applications

   4. 6. Minimum size of agricultural area

   5. 7. Recovery of undue payments

   6. 8. Interest

   7. 9. Set-off

   8. 10. Powers of entry

   9. 11. Powers of inspection etc

   10. 12. Assistance to authorised persons

   11. 13. Transfers of holdings

   12. 14. Breaches of commitments etc

   13. 15. Powers of recovery etc in relation to rural development payments

   14. 16. Offences and penalties

   15. 17. Offences by bodies corporate, partnerships or unincorporated associations

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   PART 3 CROSS-COMPLIANCE

   1. 18. Standards for good agricultural and environmental condition

   2. 19. Competent control authorities

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   PART 4 SCRUTINY OF EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL GUARANTEE FUND TRANSACTIONS

   1. 20. Interpretation

   2. 21. Powers of entry

   3. 22. Powers of inspection etc

   4. 23. Assistance to authorised persons

   5. 24. Scrutiny for the purposes of the Horizontal Regulation

   6. 25. Offences and penalties

   7. 26. Offences by bodies corporate, partnerships and unincorporated associations

   8. 27. Prosecutions

   9. 28. Defence of due diligence

   10. 29. Recovery powers

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   PART 5 APPEALS

   1. 30. Interpretation

   2. 31. Application to Pillar 1 decisions made under the SCMO Regulations

   3. 32. Appeals

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   PART 6 Final provisions

   1. 33. Notices

   2. 34. Exchange rate for direct payments

   3. 35. Revocations and savings

   4. 36. Review

8. Signature

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      SCHEDULE 1

      The SCMO Regulations

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      SCHEDULE 2

      Standards for Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition

      1. 1. Interpretation

      2. 2. Specified provisions

      3. 3. Soil protection

      4. 4. Protection of watercourses

      5. 5. Hedgerows and trees

      6. 6. Stone walls, stone banks and earth banks

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      SCHEDULE 3

      Circumstances where a breach of Schedule 2 is not a non-compliance

      1. 1. Any obligation, restriction or action carried out under—

      2. 2. Any action carried out on the land—

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      SCHEDULE 4

      Appeal fee for sum in dispute

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      SCHEDULE 5

      Revocations

10. Explanatory Note